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	Stanislaus II of Poland article - Stanislaus II of Poland January 17 1732 February 12 1798 Poland 1764 1795 Cracow ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Poniatowski was concerned in the mysterious and disreputable conspiracy which sought to set aside the succession of the grand duke Peter and his son Paul in favor of Catherine, a conspiracy frustrated by the unexpected recovery of the empress Elizabeth and the consequent arrest of the conspirators.
		Stanislaus returned to Warsaw much discredited, but nevertheless won election (7 September 1764) as king of Poland through the overwhelming influence of Catherine (she had promised him the crown.
		Stanislaus had indeed a generous heart, frequently paid the debts of his friends or of deserving scholars whose cases came to his notice, and showed exceeding kindness to the poor.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Stanislaus_II_of_Poland (956 words)

	PONIARD - LoveToKnow Article on PONIARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		PONIATOWSKI, the name of a Polish princely family of Italian origin, tracing descent from Giuseppe Torelli, who married about 1650 an heiress of the Lithuanian family of Poniator, whose name he assumed.
		The first of the Poniatowskis to distinguish himself was STANISLAUS PONIATOWSKI (1677-1762), who only belonged to the family by adoption, being the reputed son of Prince Sapieha and a Jewess.
		STANISLAUS PONIATOWSKI (1757-1833), son of Casimir, shared in the aggrandisement of the family during the reign of Stanislaus II., becoming grand treasurer of Lithuania, starost of Podolia and lieutenant-general of the royal army.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PO/PONIARD.htm (583 words)

	Stanislaus II of Poland - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		August (Polen) pl:Stanisław August Poniatowski King Stanislaus II Augustus of Poland, born Stanislaw August Poniatowski, (1732 - 1798), the son of Stanislaw Poniatowski, palatine of Cracow, (the friend and companion of Charles XII of Sweden) reigned from 1764 to the end of the independent Polish kingdom in 1795.
		Born in 1732, Poniatowski owed his career path to the influence of his uncles, the powerful Czartoryscy, who sent him to Saint Petersburg in the suite of the English ambassador Hanbury Williams.
		Poniatowski was concerned in the mysterious and disreputable conspiracy which sought to set aside the succession of the grand duke Peter and his son Paul in favour of Catherine, a conspiracy frustrated by the unexpected recovery of the empress Elizabeth and the consequent arrest of the conspirators.
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	Stanislaus II Augustus Poniatowski, King of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stanislaus Augustus (born Stanisław Antoni Poniatowski; January 17, 1732, Wołczyn, Poland - February 12, 1798, St. Petersburg, Russia) was the last king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1764-1795).
		He was the son of Stanisław Poniatowski, Castellan of Kraków, and brother of Michal Jerzy Poniatowski, primate of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland.
		He was accused by some of striving for absolutism, of doing away with the liberties of the szlachta (Polish nobility), of desiring the downfall of the Roman Catholic Church; by others, of weakness and subservience, even of treason, especially after he had joined the Targowica Confederation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanislaus_II_Augustus_Poniatowski_of_Poland (975 words)

	Stanislaus II. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The throne, after the death of Stanislaus, was to be hereditary in the electoral branch of the house of Saxony.
		Stanislaus halted military resistance and, seeking a reconciliation with Russia, joined the Confederation of Targovica.
		The national uprising of 1794, led by Kosciusko, was defeated by Russian and Prussian troops, and in 1795 the third partition completed the liquidation of Poland.
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	STANISLAUS I - Online Information article about STANISLAUS I
		On the gth of September 1733 Stanislaus himself arrived at Warsaw, having travelled night and day through central Europe disguised as a coachman, and on the followint day, despite many protests, was duly elected king of Poland for the second time.
		He was first heard of again at Konigsberg, whence he issued a manifesto to his partisans which resulted in the formation of a confederation on his behalf, and the despatch of a Polish envoy to Paris to urge France to invade Saxony with at least 40,000 men.
		In 1736 Stanislaus again abdicated the throne, but received by way of compensation the dukedom of Lorraine and Bar, which was to revert to France on his death.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SOU_STE/STANISLAUS_I.html (938 words)

	The Courtly Lives of Polish Kings, Nobles... - Polish Manor House
		Stanislaus Heraklius Lubomirski was born in 1642, and died January 17, 1702 at Ujazdow.
		Stanislaus H. Lubomirski was a supporter of Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki, and concurred with his policies aspiring to be Poland's next king.
		In 1764, Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski became the king and a new era began at Ujazdów, Lazienki and the Belvedere.
	www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/PolManorHse.html (1475 words)

	Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jerzy Henryk Butzau, the Haiduk of king Stanislaus Augustus, is considered a symbol of a faithful servant who gave his life for the monarch, shielding him during the kidnapping by the Bar Confederates on November 3, 1771.
		Stanislaus Augustus considered this portrait to be his official image and its copies, mostly by Bacciarelli, were sent to European courts for propaganda purposes.
		Assuming that Bacciarelli's portrait of Stanislaus Augustus in coronation dress is the iconographic prototype of the engraving considered here, the question arises, had the engraver seen one of the numerous versions of the portrait painted by Bacciarelli himself, or maybe one of the workshop replicas or copies.
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	Stanislaus II. August (Polen) - Wikipedia
		Poniatowski setzte einige für den Staat wichtige Reformen durch, so wurde am 3.
		Poniatowskis Versuch, die Unabhängigkeit Polens zu erlangen, scheiterte.
		Stanisław August Poniatowski wurde 1794 von der Regierung abgelöst und 1795 nach Grodno gebracht, wo er 1796 abdankte.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanislaus_II._August (693 words)

	PONIATOWSKI - Online Information article about PONIATOWSKI
		PONIATOWSKI, the name of a Polish princely family of tion of the constitution of the 3rd of May 1791 he was Italian origin, tracing descent from Giuseppe Torelli, who appointed
		He was born at Dereczyn in Lithuania, and was Polonna the Russians were repulsed with the loss of 3000 men; adopted by Sapieha's intendant, Poniatowski.
		With his father at Dubienka the line of the Bug was defended for five days he attached himself to the party of Stanislaus Leszczynski, and against fourfold odds; at Zielence the Poles won a still more became major-general in the army of Charles XII.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /POL_PRE/PONIATOWSKI.html (642 words)

	Stanislaw August Poniatowski Definition / Stanislaw August Poniatowski Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Stanislaus Augustus (born Stanisław Antoni Poniatowski; January 17January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar.
		He was the son of Stanislaw Poniatowski, CastellanA castellan was the governor or caretaker of a castle or keep.
		The role was often part way between that of a majordomo and that of a military administrator — while a castellan was responsible for the work of a castle's domestic staff, as a majordomo was, the castellan was additionally often responsible for maintaining defences and protecting the castle's lands.
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	STANISLAUS - Online Information article about STANISLAUS
		STANISLAUS PoNIATOwsKI (17571833), son of Casimir, joined the emperor at Lutzen.
		In the campaign of 1813 he shared in the aggrandisement of the family during the reign of guarded the passes of the Bohemian mountains and defended Stanislaus II., becoming grand treasurer of Lithuania, starost the left bank of the Elbe.
		His natural, but recognized, son, JOSEPH MICHAEL XAVIER pursuers, he refused to surrender, and covered with wounds FRANCIS JOHN PONIATOWSKI (1816-1873), was born at Rome plunged into the river, where he flied fighting to the last.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SOU_STE/STANISLAUS.html (511 words)

	AllRefer.com - Poland : History : Partition and Regeneration, Poland (Polish Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		In 1697 the elector of Saxony was chosen king of Poland as Augustus II by a minority faction supported by Czar Peter I. Augustus allied himself with Russia and Denmark against Charles XII of Sweden.
		In the ensuing Northern War (1700–1721), during which Poland was plundered several times, Charles XII maintained Stanislaus I (Stanislaus Leszczynski) as Polish king from 1704 to 1709.
		As a result of the support of Catherine II of Russia and Frederick II of Prussia, Stanislaus II (Stanislaus Poniatowski; reigned 1764–95), a member of the powerful Czartoryski family, was elected king of Poland.
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	CHAPTER VII
		Almost the whole of Poland was in favour of Stanislaus, the country swarmed with his partisans, while he himself lay in the strong fortress of Danzig, awaiting the arrival of the promised succour from France.
		It was the Czartoryskis who encouraged and assisted the great educational reformer Stanislaus Konarski, 1700-73 (himself a pupil of a still earlier pioneer of enlightenment, the ex-King Stanislaus, whose little Court at Nancy was, for native Poles at any rate, the first nursery of the new ideas), to establish his Collegia nobilium in Poland.
		In 1755 they sent their nephew Stanislaus Poniatowski to St Petersburg in the suite of the English ambassador, Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, in the hope that he might gain a diplomatic footing in the Russian capital.
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	Stanislaus II
		Stanislaus II Stanislaus II, 1732–98, last king of Poland (1764–95).
		Poniatowski, Stanislaus Augustus - Poniatowski, Stanislaus Augustus: see Stanislaus II.
		Poniatowski, Józef Anton, Prince - Poniatowski, Józef Anton, Prince, 1763–1813, Polish general and marshal of France;...
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	POLISH - Online Information article about POLISH
		Stanislaus Grochowski (15541612) was a priest; but his poetry is of little merit, although he was celebrated in his time as a writer of panegyrics.
		We now come to the reign of the last Polish king, Stanislaus Poniatowski, and the few quiet years before the final division of the country, during which the French taste was all-powerful.
		The great laureate of the court of Stanislaus was Trembecki (1722-1812), whose sympathies were too much with the Russian invaders of his country.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PIG_POL/POLISH.html (8628 words)

	The Courtly Lives of Polish Kings, Nobles, Saints, ... - Stanislaw August Poniatowski
		Stanislas August Poniatowski (1732-1798) was the son of Stanislas Poniatowski (1676-1762), a Lithuanian Stolnik, and (2)Princess Constance Czartoryska.
		In 1764, the brothers of King Stanislas Augustus Poniatowski (Kazimierz, Andrej, and Michal) were awarded the hereditary title of Prince of Poland by the Polish Sejm.
		The Poniatowski was a patriotic man of the Polish state and served as Supreme Chief of the arms of the Duchy of Varsovie and marshal of France.
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	LITUANUS. Vol. 39, No. 4 - Winter 1993
		Stanislaus Augustus himself saw it as the happiest day of his life: "It seemed that he, splashed with blood, at that moment was greater than at his coronation."34
		Poniatowski, however, was a coward, an effeminate person."43 According to the memoirist, a human being had to be a struggler, involved in both external and internal combat with the world and his own self.
		The listeners' failure to recognize the difference between elegant communication of the self-as-art and the faking of the language of didactic gospel was unmasked by the King, the preaching dandy.
	www.lituanus.org /1993_4/93_4_05.htm (4801 words)

	Sequel to Poltava
		Poniatowski presented Charles as a manly, impressive hero and managed to win over the Sultan's mother, Gylnysh, and the high ladies of the harem.
		Was left in Poland during the Russian campaign in command of a Swedish army in support of Joseph Potocki and King Stanislaus.
		Baron in 1711 and commissioned major general, he was sent by Charles with Daldorff (see above) as military advisor along with soldiers and officers of the Swedish Royal Lifeguard to join the Ukrainian and Polish armies with the Turkish and Crimean Khanate troops in the east during the Pruth campaign.
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	Chapter XI
		Poniatowski was crowned in September of the year 1764.
		Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski was kind-hearted and very brave, but perhaps he wanted the necessary energy to hold down the spirit of rebellion reigning in his country.
		His oldest nephew, Prince Joseph Poniatowski, is well known through his military talents and the great bravery which have earned for him the name of the "Polish Bayard." When I knew him at St. Petersburg he might have been twenty-five to twenty-seven years old.
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	Stanislaus I. Leszczynski - Wikipedia
		Stanislaus I. Leszczyński, polnisch Stanisław I. Leszczyński (* 20.
		Stanislaus I. war, wie sein Vater vor ihm, Woiwode von Posen und später General von Großpolen.
		Im Polnischen Thronfolgekrieg (1733-1735/1738) versuchte Frankreich vergeblich, erneut den Exkönig Stanislaus an die Macht zu bekommen.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanislaus_I._Leszczynski (157 words)

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		From the end of 1733 till the 30th of June 1734 Stanislaus and his partisans were besieged by the Russians in Danzig, their last refuge, and with the surrender of that fortress the cause of Stanislaus was lost.
		Their chief intermediary was their nephew Stanislaus Poniatowski, whom they sent, as Saxon minister, to the Russian court in the suite of the English minister Hanbury Williams, in 1755.
		Shortly afterwards Stanislaus Poniatowski was elected king (Sept. 7, 1764) and crowned (Nov. 25).
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	Ignatius Krasicki. Who is Ignatius Krasicki? What is Ignatius Krasicki? Where is Ignatius Krasicki? Definition of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He became best known for his Polish poems, became a church canon and traveled abroad.
		He received bishopric in Warmia in 1766 by Stanislaus Poniatowski, before Poniatowski resigned his office as king.
		King Frederick the Great bestowed on him the highest awards, the Order of the White Eagle and the Order of St. Stanislaus.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Ignatius_Krasicki (258 words)

	Stanislaus II of Poland biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Stanislaus II Augustus (born Stanisław August Poniatowski) (January 17, 1732 - February 12, 1798) was the last independent King of Poland (1764 - 1795).
		He was the son of Stanisław Poniatowski, palatine of Kraków (the friend and companion of Charles XII of Sweden).
		English translation: Stanislaw August, by the grace of God and the will of the people King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Kiev, Volhynia, Podole, Podlasie, Livonia, Smolensk, Siewierz and Czernichow.
	stanislaus-poniatowski.biography.ms (936 words)

	Encyclopedia: Boleslaus III of Poland
		Feudalism comes from the Late Latin word feudum, itself borrowed from a Germanic root *fehu, a commonly used term in the Middle Ages which means fief, or land held under certain obligations by feodati.
		Stanislaus August Poniatowski Poland was ruled by dukes (c.
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	Polish History - Part 8
		When King Augustus III died in 1763, the Czartoryski faction ruling Poland agreed with Russia on the candidacy of Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski for King of Poland (1764-1795).
		When war broke out between Russia and Turkey, King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski decided to call the Sejm as a confederation (that is, without the liberum veto) and beef up the armed forces.
		Despite stout Polish resistance (commanders being Prince Jozef Poniatowski and Tadeusz Kosciuszko) the war of 1792 ended in defeat, abolishment of the Constitution of May 3rd and the second partition was made by Russia and Prussia.
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